Roger Penrose

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality. ↗

— Roger Penrose

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This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#book #explore #extent #how #intimately

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#after #been #direction #like #little

Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#around #been #days #dependent #forces

Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#because #comment #detail #hegel #i

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#morality #question #tied #up #well

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#behave #certain #comes #consistency #dimensions

I was indeed very slow as a youngster. ↗

— Roger Penrose

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I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#i #pretty #problems #tenacious

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it. ↗

— Roger Penrose

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